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If you want to boot RIP from a USB Flash drive.
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You can write any bootable RIP ISO to a CD/DVD, using cdrecord etc.
You can also write any (except GRUB2 version) bootable RIP ISO to
a USB flash drive.
Example: dd if=RIPLinuX-13.7.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M "Under Linux!"
Example: dd if=RIPLinuX-13.7.iso of=\\.\e: bs=1M "Under Windows!"
There's a Windows version of "dd" here.
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip
You'll lose anything on the USB flash drive, but any remaining space
on the drive can be used by using fdisk to create a second partition,
and putting a FAT32 etc. filesystem on it.
You can create a second partition on /dev/sdb by using "mkpart"
from the RIP Linux system.
# mkpart b all /dev/sdb
# mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sdb2
The above example assumes your USB flash drive is on /dev/sdb.
You can also use this Windows USB installer to put RIP on a USB drive.
Choose "RIP Linux" from its menu, then browse to where
RIPLinuX-13.7.iso is on your hard drive etc. It should
work with any RIP ISO, but your USB flash drive should
be at least 256MB and FAT16 or FAT32 formatted.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3
Another method for putting RIP on a USB flash drive is using the
"mkusb.sh" script, under Linux.
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The USB drive should have at least 150 MB free.
# bash mkusb.sh RIPLinuX-X.X.iso /dev/sdb1
The above example assumes the USB drive's partition is on /dev/sdb1!
# fdisk -l "To find the device the USB drive is on!"
If the USB drive is not partitioned and FAT16 or FAT32 formatted,
use the '-f' option, because it must be partitioned and FAT formatted.
You'll loose anything on the USB drive!
# bash mkusb.sh -f RIPLinuX-X.X.iso /dev/sdb "The device must not end
with a number!"
Instead of specifying an ISO image, you can specify a source directory
that contains the contents of the ISO image, laid out the same way as
the ISO image.
# bash mkusb.sh source_directory /dev/sdb1
ATTENTION!
You can also mount a RIP CD and run 'mkusb.sh' from it.
# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
# bash /mnt/cdrom/boot/mkusb.sh -h "For Help!"
# bash /mnt/cdrom/boot/mkusb.sh /mnt/sr0 /dev/sdb1
The above example assumes your CD drive is /dev/sr0 and your
USB drive's partition is /dev/sdb1!
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